Researchers have long pondered the significance of Feb. 23, the date of the Aztec New Year. New findings suggest it aided in the accurate tracking of the seasons. Modern and past Indigenous peoples, ...

Go to updated and illustrated post. __1790: __Workers doing repairs in Mexico City unearth a massive stone bearing ancient symbols. It turns out to be a representation of the Aztec calendar and will ...

Scientists suggest in a new study that ancient Mesoamericans tracked leap years using a sunlit horizon. By Becky Ferreira Long before Europeans colonized North America, the Indigenous peoples in the ...

When there’s a will, there’s a way. And for Zelia Nuttall, a lack of a college education and a professorship were not going to stand in the way of what she wanted. As a single mother in the late 1800s ...

The Aztec calendar is different from the Maya calendar. The latter one has recently gained wide popularity due to the year 2012 prediction of the end of the world. The Aztec and the Maya people, ...

Many scientists believe that the heart of the Sun Stone or Aztec Calendar was the face of Tonatiuh, god of the sun There is a special relationship between a solar eclipse, like this April 8, and the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a twentieth century replica ...